Themes: Corporate Social Responsibility
Period : 1984-2001
Organization : Dell Computers
Pub Date : 2002
Countries : USA
Industry : Computers
The story of the world's No 1 retailer of PCs over the Internet, Dell Computer Corporation (DELL) goes back to 1984, when Michael S. Dell (Michael) established the company with a start-up capital of $1,000, in a 1000 square foot office space, in a small business center in North Austin, Texas. Michael, then a freshman pre-medicine student at the University of Texas, began his business by selling computer chips and disk drives for IBM PCs at meetings of computer users in Austin. |
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Table I
Worldwide Presence of Dell
CONTINENT |
HEADQUARTER |
MANUFACTURING FACILITIES |
OPERATING SUBSIDIES |
America |
Austin, Texas |
Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee, Eldora do Sul, Brazil |
Canada, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina |
AAsia Pacific / Japan |
Singapore, Japan |
Malaysia, China |
Australia, China, Japan, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea |
Europe, Middle East & Africa |
England |
Ireland |
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, S. Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland |
Source: www.dell.com, * This list is not exhaustive.